Dogs Trust, one of the largest dog welfare charities in Europe, has offered to take over the centre operated by the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

ANIMAL welfare personnel yesterday warned of continued attacks by dangerous dogs until adequate resources are put into tackling the control of such breeds.

Miss Beazley, the White House’s new cuddly puppy, is named after a character in a children’s book.

GARDA and inspectors from the ISPCA raided a puppy farm and removed more than 100 puppies after reports they were being kept in appalling conditions.

The embattled leader of Australia’s opposition Labour Party resigned today, a victim of his failure to dent Prime Minister John Howard’s supremacy in opinion polls.

Terrorists could sneak into Australia among boatloads of asylum seekers, prime minister John Howard hinted today, as both the government and the opposition faced growing criticism over their harsh stance on refugees.

A dramatic increase in the number of asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat in recent months is proof that the government’s tough new measures to fight the problem are not working, the opposition Labour Party said today.

Forty-four survivors were recovering in an Indonesian refugee camp today after their boat sank off Java island, drowning several hundred people.

A Texas court has halted the execution of a man who killed the father of a federal appeals court judge just hours before he was due to die by lethal injection.